Russian hide-and-seek : the Tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914 / Iain Lauchlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lauchlan, Iain.

Series:

Studia historica (Helsinki, Finland)

Studia historica ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia. Departament polit︠s︡īi.

Russia.

Russia. Departament polit͡sīi.

Internal security--Russia--History.

Internal security.

History.

Physical Description:

405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Helsinki : SKS-FLS, 2002.

Summary:

Lauchlan (St. Cross College, Oxford U., UK) asserts that the operations of the Okhrana (the Tsarist secret political police) in St. Petersburg has typically been narrated in a manner that is more myth than historical reality. Relying on archives that were opened in the 1990s, he doesn't fully jettison the image of tyrannical police bringing destruction inevitably down on the institutions they wanted to protect, but he does strive to place them into institutional perspective and suggest that they were part of general trends in European political policing. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Chapter 1 Russia's Inner Demons: The Origins of the Okhrana Myth 15

Chapter 2 Occidental Despotism: A Comparison of Security Policing in Russia and the West 57

Chapter 3 Inside the Bureaucratic Labyrinth: The Structure of the Okhrana 77

Chapter 4 Invisible Thread: Secret Police Personnel 147

Chapter 5 The People's Wrath: Terror and Counter-Revolution in St. Petersburg 231

Chapter 6 Contagious Fog: Okhrana Connections to Right-Wing Terror 261

Chapter 7 Unwanted Guests: Secret Police in Civil Society 301

Chapter 8 The Predictable Death of Imperial Russia: Military Intelligence 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-390) and index.

ISBN:

9517463561

OCLC:

51032156